Hi everyone. I'm rincey and this is rincey reads. This is totally weird. um So
I'm running super behind on everything. Lighting in here is terrible. So I'm
recording a video at work. I have like a half an hour maybe until people show up
for work so let's see if I can actually do this. Yeah I forgot my tripod at home.
It's been a week. So let's just get into it. The first question is I'm curious how
old you were when you started the channel. And has booktube changed your
reading taste at all? um So I started the channel in 2012. So I was 25, 26. So I was
like older than most people are when they start booktube but I was still
relatively young, I suppose. And has booktube changed your reading taste at
all? Significantly. I feel like I read so much wider, so much broader than I would
have before. I read a lot of like just contemporary
and literary fiction prior to joining booktube just because that's what I was
exposed to. Like I didn't really know how to discover books very well. So a lot of
times my discovery method was just going to the bookstore and picking out
whatever was on the front tables in my bookstore. I mean like borders and
Barnes and Noble. So yeah now I'm exposed to so many genres and so many different
types of books that I never would have picked up otherwise. Question 2: what's
your favorite thing about booktube and what motivates you to consistently make
videos for years on end? What motivates me are two things. One is like a selfish
one where I really like making videos. Like I feel like it works a muscle that
I don't get to work otherwise. I enjoy talking about books. And then the other
one is that, uh, you guys. Like I love the comments that you guys leave me you guys
are very generous. And I feel like I enjoy having like the back and forth
with you guys, having the conversations and seeing what you guys think about
things. Yeah I really just like this whole interaction part. What's your
favorite memory connected to booktube? I think it would be being able to go to
VidCon. A couple of years ago, I was on the booktube panel. That was just an
amazing experience. One because I never thought that I would be asked to be on a
panel at VidCon. Like that's insane. I still can't believe that really happened.
Another part of it is just like the experience of being able to see a lot of
different people who I either know through booktube or being able to meet
new people who were in booktube at that point and being able to meet people who
say they watch my videos. Like seeing people in real life say that is still
mind-blowing. What booktuber do you think has the
closest reading taste to your own? I would say David from the poptimst is
probably the closest. he hasn't been making videos though lately. So the other
one I would say is Jennifer from insert literary pun here who I
mentioned in my shout-out video. Do you ever get overwhelmed with booktubing and
maintaining your professional and personal life? Yes. Can you tell by the fact I'm
currently like recording a video in my office because I
just don't have time right now? I mean, that's partially just due to vlogmas.
In general usually I'm pretty good about balancing my time. I'm very aware of like
the things I need to accomplish. But yeah, I get overwhelmed constantly in general.
So yeah, it definitely happens. But I think I've given myself a significant
amount of grace when it comes to especially booktube stuff. Cause this isn't
my job and I've become very good at like realizing what my priorities are.
And if I don't finish some of the things that are lower on the list, that's fine, too.
So if I take a week off from making videos. It's fine. No one really cares
that much. I mean, you guys enjoy when I put out videos but I think you guys also
care about me taking care of myself and taking care of things like my job
that pays the bills. Speaking of which, moving into the miscellaneous section,
I got a bunch of questions along the same lines of what's your educational
background? What's your day job? You work at book riot, is that like your
full-time job? And all this stuff and how did you get started with book riot?
So quick rundown. I was a journalism major in college. My current full-time job is I
work at a real estate trade magazine. We publish mainly for agents. That's like my
full-time job. Book Riot is just like a side thing. I do like maybe -- what am I
doing now? Probably about like 30 hours of work a month for them. I mainly just
do the videos for them and then I am the one who's sort of like maintains their
YouTube channel. So like everyone else's videos like they upload them but I like
scheduled them and make the thumbnail and make sure they're all have like book
links and all that different stuff. And obviously I'm doing the podcast with
them too. And in terms of how I got started, I just got really, really lucky.
A couple of years ago, they decided they wanted to start doing booktube and I was
someone they reached out to. And they were like hey are you interested in
doing booktube for us and I said yes. And at that point they were still figuring
out what YouTube was gonna look like for them. So I didn't start right away doing
YouTube stuff for them. So when I got hired I was writing content for them the
way that everyone else writes content for them. Then eventually,
they started their YouTube channel and then I got hired on as someone to do or
as a youtuber for them. But yeah, if any of you are ever interested in writing
for book riot, please do it. They have a link on their website that's always open.
They're always accepting contributor applications. You just have to provide
some sort of writing samples. You don't have to have like published writing
samples. If you have like a blog or something along those lines, that's great.
But you can also I think create writing samples for them so they can get a sense
of your style. They don't hire people directly to do their YouTube channel.
So you would have to be willing to work at book riot as a writer. Have you ever
considered a career in publishing or something book related? I've thought about
it before. I mean, I never gonna say no to an opportunity like that. It probably
would be interesting and probably be something that I could theoretically be
good at. But I don't have a lot of experience in it, obviously outside of
booktube. And I kind of like the fact that there is a separation in my life.
Like I like that get my day job I'm focusing on a specific task and
specific type of work and at like home and side stuff I'm doing something
completely different. Like my biggest concern is that I would get like burned
out talking about books and talking about publishing and then like something
like this would get abandoned. So yeah I sort of like the fact that my life isn't
consumed by one specific industry. Like I know a lot about real estate right now
and I kind of find that really interesting. And I think that the same
way that I need variety in my books, I need variety in my day and the idea of
like being completely entrenched in the publishing world doesn't really interest
me at the moment. All right, next up I've got a bunch of food questions because I
prompted that. What's your favorite thing to cook and are there any meal snacks
etc that propel you back to your childhood? I don't have a favorite thing
to cook. I mean I feel like my favorite things that I've made are things that
I've made for other people. I have a jambalaya recipe I really like and the
reason why I'm thought of that is because I made it for my friends who
just had a baby. I really enjoy baking cookies if we're talking about baking.
I really like roasting vegetables. That's not like a thing to cook, that's like my
favorite thing to eat. I make a lot of like soups and things like that of that
nature because that's usually what I'm bringing to lunch. That's another
question is, I know you pack your lunch for work. What's a typical packed lunch for you?
Usually some type of like soup type situation or like a stir-fry.
Sometimes I'll have pasta but I don't really like eating a
lot of pasta. So I don't do that too often. But a lot of times it's like a
soup type thing because I like it and it works well for lunch and I have like
these little containers that carry it well. Oh and then are there any meal
snacks etc that propel you back to childhood? Yeah basically anything my mom
cooks. Those freeze-e-pops. I don't think that's the official name for them but
it's like the tube and it has like sugar water inside basically that's frozen.
Those always propel me back to childhood although I still eat those now in the
summer time. So I don't know. I feel like a lot of the stuff that I eat as a kid I
still eat on occasion. Not as often but I still eat it. Alright, next question is
what's your favorite bougie "foodie" type food and what's your favorite trashy
junk food? Trashy junk food is very easy for me to answer that is pizza rolls.
Pretty sure there's nothing nutritional or helpful in pizza rolls but I could
eat those every single day if I didn't care about my body. Favorite bougie
foodie type food is really hard for me because I don't really eat that much
bougie food because, in my opinion, because I don't want to pay that much
money for food. So I'm gonna just go with ramen. Like you can get like dollar ramen
and it's not bad. But like really good high-quality ramen is *mwah* could eat it
every day. Any cool podcast that you can recommend?
I'm gonna look at my podcast player really quick cause I did that prep as well
for this question. I don't listen to a lot of podcasts because I don't spend a
lot of my time listening to things. Like the majority of my listening time is at
work and I can't really listen to podcasts cause I can't really listen to
podcasts and like write things or edit or read and edit things. I'm just going
to run down through some of my favorites. I really like the annotated podcast from
book riot. That's probably like one of my favorites that book riot's put out.
It's basically like planet money but with books.
NPR's code switch, always great. Extra hot great is a TV related podcast that I
really, really enjoy. Pass the mic is-- the website that pass the mic works for is
called a witness and they call themselves like a black Christian
collective. I really enjoy that. That's probably my current favorite.
Still processing is one from the New York Times that I really, really enjoy. I'll
have links to all these down in the description below. So that way you guys
can check them out if you're interested. But yeah, those are sort of like
the ones in my feed of like when they put out a new episode, I always listen.
Besides books what are your specific interests?
I associate you and your channel with literature but while watching I can't
handle it-- But while watching, I can't help but
wonder what your favorite food or music is? Things besides your favorite book.
If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that I like food a lot and I also like
music a lot. In terms of my favorites, I mean, I listen to basically like pop and
indie rock and indie pop and some R&B. I listen to a lot of different things. It's
hard for me to say what my favorite is. I sort of grew up with like two major
influences in my life. One was like my sister who listened, and still listens,
to a lot of like hip-hop, R&B, pop. And then I had like my cousin who was like a
straight-up like rocker type guy. He listened to like Metallica and all that
stuff, Pearl Jam and Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. So I get like a rock side from
him. So now I feel like I just listened to everything. Other things I like:
I really like art, going to art museums and you know seeing public displays of art.
I don't watch as much television as I used to but I really am intrigued by the
television industry, the media world and things like that like. There was a point
in time in my life, when I was in college basically, where I thought I wanted to
become a network executive. That obviously didn't happen for a lot of
different reasons. But yeah, that was a thing. Someone asked me: have you ever
been to Delaware? No I have not. I actually know nothing about Delaware. I'm
very bad at knowing about the like northeast part of the United States. Like
all those states sort of blend together. I apologize to all of you who live in
that part of the country, but I know nothing about it.
What songs albums have you enjoyed this year and what are your thoughts on
reading while having music in the background? Reading while having music in
the background I'm totally cool with. Just because I can easily like ignore it
and I actually like it a lot. I'm currently looking up my last.fm profile.
So I can see what albums I listen to a lot over the last 365 days. HAIM's new
album, definitely high repeat. Hillsong United's new album, Wonder. The Mynanirds,
be here now. I listen to that soo much Ibeyi? I don't know how to say that one.
Their new album ash I listen to a lot. The xx's latest album I listened to
a lot this year. Rationale's album I listened to a lot. Oh god I really want
to see rationale in concert. SZA. I listened to her album a lot. flor.
I don't know if I'm saying that one correctly. John Mark McMillan's new album
mercury and lightening. I listen to those a lot. Yeah, that's good. That's like top 10
for the year. Where did you get that super cute sweater?
I'm assuming this person meant the sweater that I was wearing in that first
video where she left the comment and it was from Old Navy. So yeah. Oh, by the way,
speaking of sweaters, I'm wearing my Christmas sweater today cause it's the last day of
work before Christmas. I just thought I'd show that off since I can. I think you
mentioned in another video about your parents being immigrants to the United
States. I want to ask if you or your parents ever visit family left behind,
also if you can read in another language. I can't read in another language. I can
barely speak / understand other languages. I can get by. But yes, we do or
my parents do or I should say my mom does cause my dad passed away a couple of
years ago. But yeah, my mom just went back to India this year. I hope to return at
some point but it's hard with like vacation and things like that. And
especially like going all the way across the country, you lose like two to three
days just traveling. So it's hard for me to take like big chunks of vacation like
that. So I haven't been since I was in college. Which is unfortunate because I
have a lot of family back there: a lot of first cousins, a lot of people who are
getting older, a lot of people have had kids at this point and I have never met
their kids. So yeah I definitely want to go back. Have you always lived in Chicago?
Basically yes. I was born here. The only time I left for a significant portion of
time is when I went to college and that was literally going to Milwaukee, which
is not that far away. It's like an hour-ish drive. So yeah, I am a Midwestern,
Chicago girl through and through. What's the best concert you've ever been to?
This is really hard for me because I feel like best concert is such a
subjective thing. The first Bastille concert I ever went
to was like mind-blowing but I think it was partially because it was the first
time I was seeing them live. And also I met them afterwards. I was that weirdo
who hung out in the alley and stayed behind to meet them. But it was
fantastic. Like they are so kind and so generous with their time. Will, the
bass player, like offered me his coat cause it was maybe October at that point. And it
was like one of those days where it was slightly on the warmer side. So I didn't have a
jacket and so I was like literally standing there like this the whole time.
And he offered to give me his coat so I could like be warm while we were having
our discussion. And it was a great discussion. Like we didn't, we talked
about like crime in the United States. Cause it was also like their first time in
the United States. So we were talking about like what they were seeing and
experiencing in the United States. And so we talked a lot about like culture and
like things that they've noticed that are like super different from the way
they were raised in the United States. Like they found like the whole gun stuff
super fascinating because they are so not exposed to it, gun culture that is.
And you know, I talked about crime here in Chicago and you know various factors
that go into that. Yeah it was really, really fantastic. So I feel like that's
sort of the epitome of like a great concert experience. Like all of
their shows are amazing, I think partially because the crowd is
always super great. But yeah, they also just put on a really fantastic show. um
All right final question, who / what is your favorite non book related YouTube
channel, something that might surprise us? I watch a bunch of like random things.
Like I'll watch like one channel in a bunch of different genres. Dodger /
pressheart2continue in terms of gaming stuff. I've been watching her for
a really long time cause she used to do like daily vlogs sort of situation. Like
she did this thing called coffee time and she would record a video every single
day and have coffee and talk about her day and she is fantastic. And so now I
watch her. Trainer tips in terms of Pokemon go content. Yes I'm still
watching that stuff because I'm still playing. But I'll-- beyond Pokemon go stuff.
He is amazing at filming and editing. Like my most recent daily vlog that I
did was partially inspired by like things that I had seen him do. And
obviously I can't do things at his level but it was me trying to emulate that.
I apologize for the sound. Our coffee makers turning on because it's
on a timer. Another one that I recently saw is Anthony
D'Angelo makes a lot about like media theory and media content. And he recently
just put up a video called the politics of vlogging. I'm looking to the side cause
I'm looking at my computer to make sure I'm saying it all correctly. I'm gonna
link specifically to that video. It's amazing. He's so smart. I mean, I think
he's getting his master's in this or something along those lines. But yeah,
he's so smart. I also watch like financial youtubers. If you have been
with me for a while, you would have seen like last year I made videos about
like budgeting and things like that. I don't watch quite as many anymore but
the one I would recommend or the one that I really liked is budget girl.
Because one, she's single. It's very rare to find single people who talk
about financials because it's usually like married couples. And also like she's
always made similar amounts of money as me. So it felt really
nice to see someone who is making like $30,000 you know paying down their
student loan debts and things like that. And I just wanted to be really inspiring.
And obviously our situations are often different but the fact that like she
wasn't making a lot of money, I wasn't making a lot of money at that point and
she was paying debt really aggressively, I was just, yeah again, just
really, really inspiring I'll have links to all their channel / videos down
in the description. And that's it. I finished and no one's here yet. Success.
Part of me now wishes I brought my laptop to work because then I could
import this video and get a head start on editing. But anyways, that's a complete
side thing. Thank you so much to everyone who left me questions.
You are always welcome to leave me questions in comments of videos and I
tried my best to answer them the best that I can. But this was fun even if like
I'm doing things like this like recording at work. So yeah, I will have my
best books of the year, or not best books, favorite books of the year. I say
favorite because I am in no place to judge the best books of the year. But
yeah, favorite books of the year is coming out tomorrow. So you can look out
for that. And then I'll be basically done with vlogmas. So thanks so much to
everyone for watching and enjoying all of these videos. I will have a link to my
vlogmas playlist up in the cards. So in case you guys are interested in checking
that out if you are new here or you just like to see if you missed any videos
definitely you can do that. So yeah, that's all I have for now and thanks for watching.
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